Posts by DaveFernig@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #ASBDELvit9UxnOrQfo by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-01-30T20:31:38Z
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@freemo This is a difficult one due to ‘memory #’ supplied by other family members and the photograph. I have some early ones that will be real but cannot place them in time.
(DIR) Post #ATgN3UtP0H958WYTr6 by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-03-16T19:09:53Z
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@freemo plus ça change plus c’est la même chose 😉. Less flippantly and as you point out it is somewhat more complex. The Convention is part of the packages associated with sign up to various UN and other international institutions, but ultimately the only ‘police’ are the citizens of individual countries, so a most imperfect arrangement. Of course there are border checks the key being whether people are treated as such or not. Our principles are admirable our practice Is often wanting!
(DIR) Post #ATgN8sGHXsJH3uoxFY by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-03-16T19:10:52Z
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@freemo rain, rain, go away … 😭
(DIR) Post #AXl70wzUDxPOWxgEzY by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-07-16T15:37:27Z
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@jeffcliff @smartbrain @Monolecte @steevmi1 @covid_stats @pthenq1 @MisterWanko @catsladder @Coolduck @oceansea @aisteach the Chinese post restriction spike I think - several million dead they came out too fast with insufficient mitigation measures like masks air filtration- familiar story sadly
(DIR) Post #AYtgZFGPqUJKxGsE9g by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-08-19T18:40:16Z
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@freemo the root of the problem interestingly is slavery, why unlike all other democracies and some other countries US doesn’t have a not for profit system covering all citizens. Some interesting data and arguments on this in Pikerty’s capital in 21st century
(DIR) Post #AYtjNuHZoSdqYlhYuG by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-08-19T19:11:50Z
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@freemo the ideological resistance to a not for profit system covering all citizens arises due to such a system cover the descendants of slaves. Earliest system I know of is Austrian, late 19th century. Holding people Hostage over essentials like insulin is a form of significant non democratic oppression
(DIR) Post #AZOp1xPFAKhIrOxwXI by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-09-03T19:11:10Z
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@freemo abuse is a big issue. Less now than 40 years ago but changing medical culture takes time. To the consternation of some senior clinicians (‘they aren’t learning anything useful like we did”) our medical students now spend time training with actor patients. A start but only that and one problem is how we select for entry into medicine. - empathy is well down the list.
(DIR) Post #AZOrblU7ANkoDhRjhg by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-09-03T19:40:02Z
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@freemo of course one cannot judge individuals from the average, but indeed empathy considerably lower the older they are, as the older ones had no training in this, so either it was a quality and skill they alfeady had or not. Also the culture of selection for entry and of training meant (and still does to an extent) that empathy was judged to be a ‘weakness’ - so a good deal of macho culture unfortunately.
(DIR) Post #AZOutCcjoi4lAxUDlg by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-09-03T20:16:48Z
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@freemo I cannot speak for the US, other than from the stats (worst system among the rich countries) but in the UK there has been a welcome change though still a long way to go.
(DIR) Post #Abm3N1RWtvHWeIIOEi by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-11-13T19:52:21Z
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@mike805 @freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent depends when a ‘person’ starts to exist. Ironically in the Bible it is at birth
(DIR) Post #AbzlyxSrba0BmjtkIK by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-11-20T10:45:31Z
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@freemo @mike805 @RodneyPetersonTalent the other side of the coin is we know for sure the mother is sentient and her health mental and physical looms large in this equation
(DIR) Post #AcLOjKYTxo47IXDwC8 by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-11-30T21:08:38Z
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@freemo a considerable number are veterans with PTSD - accounts for some of the difference. There may also be a difference in the ability of women to help each other when mental health crashes.
(DIR) Post #AcLPGReqZq0ssmzVdw by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-11-30T21:14:37Z
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@freemo the veteran makes me double angry. Double over the knowledge that when we invested in people 14 + years ago in the Uk there were a rarity, now 1000s even in middle sized cities.
(DIR) Post #AcLPmR2UPeBmEMItIu by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-11-30T21:20:22Z
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@freemo absolutely- it is on the citizen, too many close their eyes as they step over the body huddled on the pavement and refuse to acknowledge the fact that that person is as much a human as anyone else.
(DIR) Post #AcLe82qWRPLWvUu9Ds by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-11-30T21:12:29Z
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@auscandoc @britishtechguru @auscovid19 @freemo @DenisCOVIDinfoguy in the Uk we remain at 500-600 covid deaths/ month, long covid though less frequent per infection rate/million has gone up due to increased infectivity. We are at the start when this is admitted we might start doing some rational things
(DIR) Post #AcmC7V3nOlyHIBDxFg by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-12-13T19:24:32Z
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@freemo @britishtechguru @auscandoc @auscovid19 @DenisCOVIDinfoguy sure you can. Air filtration in places where people congregate plus masks. Air filtration in primate schools without masks reduces transmission to zero. It is simply a question of reducing concentrations below a threshold. Outdoors = dilution
(DIR) Post #Ad2yAIP4tAnYLjnQWm by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-12-21T21:38:16Z
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@freemo likely surface charge. Ever made ‘anti bubbles’ Great fun. A thin layer of air around a bubble of the liquid. Super stable too.
(DIR) Post #Ad2yKv8Xja8dNI81kO by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-12-21T21:36:04Z
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@kilroy_was_here @freemo ‘means testing’ was a neoliberal invention paraded in the oligarch press as a means to break post WWII social cohesion that resulted from interdependency necessitated by war - so brought back divide and rule. UBI is more efficient and cheaper.
(DIR) Post #AdHQxCvOMKuNp4p3nE by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-12-28T21:06:49Z
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@freemo @lonelyowl @kilroy_was_here why is it that only poor people have bad habits are lazy etc?
(DIR) Post #AdHb87Goio5b0rgUqm by DaveFernig@qoto.org
2023-12-28T23:00:50Z
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@freemo @lonelyowl @kilroy_was_here did they do enough work or inherited? 1st gen College students and PhDs for examples have a large handicap - despite parents working themselves to the bone to get them there.